STANWOOD — Jo Cort saw an opening and went for it.

After nearly 40 minutes of back-and-forth play between Snohomish girls soccer and the host Stanwood at Bob Larson Stadium on Thursday, neither side able to generate significant traction, the Snohomish junior had the ball well outside the 18-yard box towards the right side of the field. With just enough space to deliver a long ball and potentially shock the goalkeeper, Cort chipped it high towards the net.

“That was a funny one,” Cort said of her shot. “That was kind of hope for the best. That one was kind of just, ‘Is it going in?’”

As the ball hit its peak and fell, everyone in the stadium wondered where it would land. It fell with the same trajectory as if someone had dropped it out of a passing plane, almost straight down. So when it

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